Spare Collection (page 2)

Smoker outside cafe, Mijas, Spain
A smoker sits in the evening sun outside a cafe in Mijas, Andalucia, Spain. He casts a shadow on the white wall and sits at a table with a bright red tablecloth Date: 2007

Staten Island, New York, NY, USA - A Travelling Library - the Bookwagon, carrying the service of the New York Public Library to the countrysides

Bagpipe Seller, Charing Cross, London. Date: 1900s

Female contortionist Diana Gaye and car boot
The female contortionist Diana Gaye sitting half in and half out of an open car boot, helped by a young male assistant. (2 of 5) Date: 1971

Interior of Pickfair
The upstairs hall made into a sitting-room at Pickfair, the Beverly Hills home of Mary Pickford and Douglas Fairbanks Snr. Date: 1928

Advert from the National Savings Committee 1945
Rhyme and reason. Sing a song of spare cash, a song to make you sigh; Four and twenty shillings spent on a buy. When the buy was open the bug began to sing Wasn t that a lot to pay for such a foolish

LCC-LFB Shoreditch fire station, near Old Street
Built in 1895, Shoreditch fire station B27 was located at 140 Tabernacle Street, near Old Street. The stations spare escape ladder is parked on the station forecourt

Liverpool Mail in Snow
The Liverpool Mail encounters heavy weather near Saint Albans, Hertfordshire, and can t spare a thought for the distressed lady stuck in her private carriage

Couple and Hispano-Suiza H6B - Beaulieu-sur-Mer, France
A fine couple, posing alongside a quite magnificent chauffeur-driven Hispano-Suiza H6B (one of the finest luxury cars in the world at this time) at the La Reserve de Beaulieu Hotel & Spa

Currant Happy Families - box front and card back - Spare the Currants, Spoil the Cake. circa 1940s

WW2 poster, They need spares to use their wings. HMSO Ministry of Aircraft Production. Date: 1940s

WW2 poster, What! No Spares! He should be up in the air. HMSO Ministry of Aircraft Production. Date: 1940s

Girl with Kitten 1940S
If you are going to let your children keep pets, you must spare the time to see that they learn to treat the animals properly. This girl feeds her kitten carefully. Date: 1940s

Samuel Birch
SAMUEL BIRCH Soldier, pastrycook, playwright and, in his spare moments, alderman. Date: 1757 - 1841

Pablo De Cespedes
PABLO DE CESPEDES Spanish poet, architect, painter, sculptor and engraver. (What did he do in his spare time ?) Date: 1538 - 1608

USA & Pauper Labour / 1892
The American working man asks Uncle Sam to spare him from European pauper labour Date: 1892

Motoring Scene 1916
A man goes for a spin in an open-top car, in this advertisement for Petroleo Gal hair oil! Date: 1916

Saint Ursula & virgins
Saint Ursula of Koln, about to be martyred with her 11 companions each of whom is attended by 1000 virgins, but nasty Attila the Hun will spare not a single one of them 4th century

Soldiers and others at Creil station, northern France, WW1
Soldiers and others at Creil station, northern France, during the early stages of the First World War. One of the men (centre) is an Algerian Spahi. Date: 1914

Alcock A1 an interesting one -off built largely from spare parts

Finishers on conveyance in front of hat factory in Offerton, Stockport, about to leave on a works trip in Augist 1907. Note the spare third horse additional to the two in harness

Scouting event at camp in Fiji, South Pacific -- 4th Lautoka Troops winning display, a shower bath, constructed during spare time activities

Suffragette Policeman Beggar. Suffragette is escorted away by three policemen. A beggar or mendicant, cap outstretched, asks, Can you spare a copper, lady? Date: circa 1910

Paris, France - Square des Arts et Metiers. Date: 1861

Couplings and other equipment
A pile of couplings and other equipment

British soldier washing clothes, Western Front, WW1
A British soldier washing clothes near the Western Front during World War One. Date: circa 1916

Allocation of heavy bombers by G. H. Davis
The transport problems that would arise were heavy bombers switched from Britain to the Middle East during the Second World War

Lady Motorist at the Wheel
Atylish Lady Motorist at the Wheel - an advertising plate for John Bull Tyres. Date: circa late 1940s

Advert from the National Savings Committee 1946
Listen to your wiser self ! Shoppings done and you ve a few shillings to spare. Going to let them burn a hole in your purse

Loading spare motor parts, Western Front, WW1
British soldiers loading spare motor transport parts on the Western Front in France during World War One. Date: circa 1916

Man in uniform driving sports car
A man in military uniform driving a sports car

Two women working in a garage, repairing vehicles

Vehicles awaiting repair
Vehicles in a yard, waiting to be repaired, or perhaps they are beyond repair and are being held for spare parts

Man and car on road to Brighton, Sussex
Man and car on the road to Brighton, Sussex. Date: 1936

Henry Russell
HENRY RUSSELL - song-writer who studied with Rossini, Bellini, Donizetti, wrote The old armchair and Woodman, spare that tree ! Date: 1812 - 1900

Thomas Penrose
THOMAS PENROSE churchman, rector of Beckington, and poet in such hours of leisure as he was able to spare from his parochial duties. Date: 1742 - 1779

WW1 - German soldiers carry spare wing for Fokker Biplane
WW1 - German soldiers carry spare wing for a Fokker Biplane near the front line at Reims Date: circa 1916

Boeing 707-321 G-AYBJ of British Midland
Boeing 707-321, G-AYBJ, of British Midland, carrying a spare engine

Dunlop spare wheel compared with standard, 1960 Date: 1960

RAC repairman

Queen Elizabeth at Harrods meeting NFS firefighters, WW2
Harrods (Knightsbridge) hosted an exhibition on behalf of Nursing Schools Association (Learn to Live) which was attended by Queen Elizabeth

Stocks of fire brigade hose fittings, LFB HQ workshops
An assortment of pump collector heads, hose adapters and suction hoses on the floor of the London Fire Brigade workshops at Lambeth

Woodman, spare that tree, touch not a single bough. Funds would be scarce if we should run amuck - just now. Illustration shows President Theodore Roosevelt stopping Philander Chase Knox from cutting

For you - they are giving their lives over there - For them - you must give every cent you can spare 2nd war fund - May 6-11

Spare the weeds

Working Girls of all Nationalities Making the Best of the Spare Evening Hours. Boston 1915 Exhibit. Location: Boston, Massachusetts. Date 1909 October

Working Boys of all Nationalities Making the Best of the Spa

SUNBEAM 1907
Frederick Eastmead and friends in a 15/20 Sunbeam, a quality tourer fitted with fold-back hood, windscreen, lamps, horn and spare tyre. 1907

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